Railway Construction Surveyor

Schweerbau is seeking a railway construction surveyor in Stadthagen to help establish its surveying department. The company works on construction sites across Europe. Travel accounts for around 30 to 40 percent of the role, depending on projects.

• Carry out railway construction surveys, from setting out through existing-condition and control surveys to final acceptance surveys. This also includes surveying fixed reference points, restricted clearances and recording conditions as evidence.
• Survey tracks and switches and check their position, elevation and geometry.
• Prepare site measurements, quantity calculations and surveying documents for construction and billing.
• Analyse survey data and prepare setting-out, elevation and alignment plans, plus comparisons between planned and actual results. Prepare data for tamping machines and other railway construction machinery, including GEDO data, and create 3D models for GPS-guided construction machinery.
• Support site managers and construction teams with surveying questions and help apply digital surveying methods.

• You have completed vocational training as a surveying technician, a degree in surveying, geoinformatics or geodesy, or a comparable qualification.
• You have professional surveying experience, preferably in track or railway construction. Knowledge of quantity calculations, site measurements and billing is an advantage.
• You are confident using modern surveying equipment such as total stations, GNSS and levels, as well as common CAD or GIS software.
• You hold a category B driving licence and are fit to work in railway track areas.
• Travel accounts for approximately 30 to 40 percent of your work, depending on our construction projects.
• You work carefully and precisely, communicate well, work well in a team and have German language skills suitable for professional negotiations.
• You work independently and actively help shape structures, processes and standards.